"Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome," Part 2. Joy DeGruy Leary, the Black Bag Speakers Series, PSU, 2006

looking menacingly at a white woman vagrancy loiter 1015 years for that here's the kicker 25% of people in the convict lease died more than during slavery because you don't you know you don't kill off your property that you need to work for you but they didn't have any protections because they have another label do they not and when you're going to oppress the subjugated people what must you do you must justify by relabeling them but not only are they black genetically inferior lustful careless governed by Caprice but now they're criminals which then justifies what we do so 25% of them died under convict lease but let us look at how lucrative it was convict leasing was so successful that by 1898 nearly three quarters of Alabama's total state revenue came directly from this institution so there's a trauma camp in which all three right let's move on so then we had Oh Lord we got it now separate but equal is it equal now friend still separate though you know what a Negroes are what we're doing gentrification important but you know we know what a black folk are doing you know what fine I'm right mm-hmm there's no you know sign on the freeway that says next left hood but we know what we there don't we keep it that way okay separate never equal and that's contemporary right now we're gonna get too hot where am i time you don't have concept where we where's it timers where am i time excellent so I wanted to endeavor to look at some of the more difficult pieces because I really wanted to take a look at the some things that I chose this moves into chapter 3 I need to talk about J Marion Sims could you find his picture J Mary yes he came early he cleans up jamierand simply would say a little bit about J how many people you know I'm you know there are huge statues edifices for this man great thing how many people don't know what a vaginal speculum is for those young men are men in the room that we've lost you there what a vaginal speculum is it's an instrument that was created to open up the vagina the so folks could kind of peer in now jamierand sims is the individual credited with that creation and he has touted as being the wealthiest physician to have ever lived jamierand Sims was a physician in the mid 1800s credited with the creation of the first vaginal speculum which he made from a pewter spoon Sims had built a makeshift hospital in his backyard where he conducted surgical experiments on unnecessary c'n slave women Sims reasoned that slave women were able to bear great pain because their race made them more durable and thus they were well suited for painful medical experimentation so this is someone who took an oath to do no harm and he cut in two black women without any anesthesia now let me kind of get close with you around why this becomes very important J Marion Sims becomes very important because the first question I asked was first of all weird all women come from how do you get him and what the problem was is they weren't it would be said that these women were not fit for duty by their slave masters and here's why they weren't fit for many of the women suffered from what was called a fistula an obstetric fistula is the breakdown of tissue in the vaginal wall frequently as a result of childbirth which affects the bladder and or the rectum the disorder causes leakage of urine and feces into the vagina which made for a smelly and humiliating existence for the women however this condition did not preclude these slave women from participating in their daily work on the plantation such as picking cotton house cleaning cooking etc so what Duty were the women then unfit for the obvious answers that while black slave women were required to do manual labor alongside their black male counterparts one of their other inescapable duties was to sexually serve their slave masters their malodorous condition made them less sexually desirable and thus they were unfit for duty so you need to clean them up Marian Sam so we can do them but what's more important about this is how we just if I remember in order to oppress or subject case you have to justify that behavior but it wasn't only the women that suffered under his little brain could you show that all please slavery were not the only group to suffer black infants represent the most innocent of Sims victims black infants suffered from what he termed Primus nae Cynthia now commonly referred to as neonatal tetanus tetanus originates in horse manure the likely cause of the disease in slave infants given their living condition in their proximity to animal stables sins attributed the condition to the indecency and intellectual flaws of the black slaves together with skull malformations at birth sims attempted to treat this malady by trying to pry the bones in the skulls of the tiny infants into alignment with the shoemaker's all I was careful to find one from the eighteenth hunt he would stick that into the brain in the skulls of black infants at birth in an effort to realign their skulls because of the indecency of their parents he is worshipped in this medical world Jay married Sims but I was more curious about how a physician could do such a thing and here's how you do it you pathologize the people now let me read what they said about black women because it gets real specific black women their first pathological symptom was their skin color in a medical world that categorized life is either normal pathological people the African Diaspora were continually condemned to the category of pathological their abnormal skin serving as a foil for normal white skin stay with me the skin if you see black people if the problem is is the skin itself it's pathological because it's actually a foil over normal white skin this is what medical journals journals suggested now we're going to find out how they named it medical tradition has a long history of receiving this gift color as a form of pathology the favorite theory which reappears with some frequency in the early nineteenth century is at the skin color an attendant physiognomies of the black here's reason why y'all black is because of congenital leprosy this is why there's so many of us we all have congenital leprosy now we have a second symptom the second symptom of pathology was gender black females were perceived to be irreligious lustful and a moderate well that's convenient isn't it let's take a look at that we need to really take a look at this one because I have a whole chapter on rape I'm not can't even get close to what that did to me there were over and it's this comes out of a social work book in a Social Work book it's things that there were over 600,000 mixed-race babies born in the mid eighteen hundreds based on the census now this was during misogyny that means it's illegal to marry so who was sneaking out back and who is raping whom we have numbers young girls rarely made it to their teens before they were raped but let's put that in perspective as a social scientist now I want to get into that too that the fact that we were lustful because then you see it's their fault isn't it surely I raped them but didn't they deserve it hmm now we need evidence of how we know their lustful in a moderate and amoral here we go there patru ting buttocks and genitals were offered as physical evidence of their pathology anybody out there with a big butt um there you have it you [ __ ] it's incredulous isn't it's hard for you you believe we season books and the criminally insane right but what was so amazing I want to get right let's get right up with that because the blood thing really threw me off because everybody wants that but now don't they yeah JLo made gave us all permission to first half of the bus and it's an African but don't get confused about anything and it's a what they couldn't keep their hands off of Nate now they're injecting the but now they're putting butts in pants they're making underwear winner books in addition to that injecting the lips with collagen lock in the hair and telling you the whole time you're ugly still looking for the safest team isn't that amazing and the sad thing about it is we believe were mmm case in point 2006 oh yeah she was cute yet clear mmm she Hey oh he was oh he was fine with life's kidding yeah look at a music video fangirl with it might as well just taking over and over getting tragic mulatto are you following me I have people saying such are you going natural going natural might even have boyhood what while she's will you must she's militant yeah because I actually wear my hair the way grows out my head anybody white hair my car you know Cuba like that are you gonna permit us so much wear it like that right yeah I see your rooster why we're gonna have two white people we have pathologized what is naturally us and when we would once an assault or insult you black big lit nappy and stay with me you see that's called post-traumatic slave syndrome that's what that looks like and then why people oh well no wonder look at them you're so negative alright so let's move on so then after all that I want I want to I want to take a look at another piece because again you know you let me you think of someone that raped and did horrible things you get the picture of a big gut toothless wonder you know what straw hat you know get the boys and go out there and get them well let's just movie start looking at the impact the strange fruit head your Ottawa strange true Billy got in trouble for mountain but let's talk about the strange fruit and I want now I want that this is an imminent in a book by the way how to put on the pictures and a book I'm not interested in reinjure if like the but I wanted you to look at this picture there's only one reason why I want you look at is I want you look at who's in it this this was just plain old regular phone and the way that little girl is looking at that man she can't be right that's what's wrong with white people by the way it's right there in that picture because he's no more talked about what happened to white people that's another book but this is specific now I show this picture because it's unbelief got the love Sunday pen they ran train excursions and let children out of school early to attend lynchings lynchings now let's show the other slides I want to read this one it's a rather gruesome one did you prepare but I want to read from this one so you can understand what they did at the lynchings if you want to know the reference to this you can I ever ever reading this in my book in addition that you go on site on my line online with my my website joy Livie calm and it will give you some suggested readings the name of the book that I would suggest it to what is called a hundred years of lynching they're all newspaper accounts us by Ginsberg a hundred years of lynching no pictures this one is a famous picture that you will find in a variety of places but one of them is called without sanctuary recently published which is a pictorial and now what I'm doing is I'm going to read from the newspaper account before the torch was applied the Negro was deprived of his ears finger and Jim flink fingers and genital parts of his body he pleaded pitifully for his life while the mutilation was going on but stood the ordeal of fire with surprising fortitude before the body was cool was cut to pieces the bones were crushed into small bits and even the tree upon which the wretch met his fate was torn up and disposed of as souvenirs the Negroes heart was cut into several pieces as was also his liver those unable to obtain the ghastly relics direct paid their more fortunate possessors extravagant sums for them small pieces of bone went for 25 cents and a bit of the liver crisply cooked so for 10 cents as soon as the Negro was seen to be dead there was a tremendous straw the crowd to secure the souvenirs knives were quickly produced and soon the body was dismembered now I want you to look at who's in the picture they're crowding to being an insuit so whatever memory or thoughts we had about who these folks were they were just plain common folk but joy surely you know this has no relevance today between 1882 and 1967 200 bills and Senator David quarterly wouldn't know about this one 200 bills were presented before Congress to outlaw lynching additionally seven presidents urged Congress to end the practice each and every time these efforts were rejected by the Congress and lynchings continued unabated and unpunished it was not until 2005 that the US Senate offered an apology for what intern domestic terrorism against mostly black people and even then folks wouldn't sign on it so that the trauma continued boy we're an amazing people we're an amazing people but we don't know who we are and you cannot heal what you don't understand we can't heal it if we won't look at it so how does it manifest itself very quickly we go through some of my research because I'm gonna give you some examples of it there's a chart and I did work specifically on african-american male youth violence I didn't want to look at violence by the way what I really wanted to look at was something I term in the book vacant is Steve one of the symptoms of post traumatic slave syndrome vacant esteem should not be somehow confused with low self-esteem low self-esteem is when you can't do as many chin-ups as maybe your sister your brother I'm not talking about that and I don't think its thing should be measured in terms of low and high because their people would perfectly high self esteem they're [ __ ] and you have to go to meetings with don't you but they are high self-esteem they write them so I think Steen esteem should be measured in terms of accurate esteem it's accurate esteem do you have an assessment of yourself that is appropriate not high or low accurate and healthy so these are things I looked at I don't want to look at this I thought I don't want to confine it why because my committee told me that a vacant esteem wasn't a social problem clearly that's not a social problem soldier problem ii define it remember my graduate work associate problem is a social problem can be defined as a social problem if a significant number of people believe that it is a social problem or significant persons believe it is a social problem and we didn't qualify for either of those not likely but let me tell you why I wanted to look at self-esteem I wanted to look at self-esteem because my first work was with children I thought things happening with black children and bothered me disturb aside from the good hair bad hair and all the other ugly negative black epithets that we would throw at one another that I heard in contemporary world around me I was concerned about what I saw happening to the hearts and minds of little black children and one of the things that I started to notice happened directly after I had come from South Africa in 1994 I went to South Africa on the heels of the inauguration of Nelson Mandela and it was a tough time in the country and it was an incredible time for me because it wasn't a fact for me in a way a rebirth a pilgrimage a point of normalcy that I never knew because I never knew how to feel normal as a black person in America this is an article recently published called it says my black skin makes my white coat veg this is a doctor who was standing Lobby and her her clients would go where's the doctor right we're invisible and I grew up being invisible discounted on a daily basis so I went to Africa it was the first time in my life it felt normal being black and so I cried a lot I cried so much in fact the a of the women I was traveling with got little through it now there's a reason why I gotta go through the reason I got go through it means we can see in South Africa in the southern region actually I was in four countries when you cry you know here to go get that girl Titian fine excision dryer in Africa they sing and they just start singing four-part harming and breaking it off right and in homeroom would just be singing until I saw her and this was profound the queen of lassoo sue had her royal choir come and sing to this group of nine african-american women we're professionals traveling throughout the southern region and this was really good and emotional except there's a little catch after they finished singing they asked us to offer few songs and contrary to popular belief we can't all see so the women in my group board you know we did love shootin so we were your own radio after a while um but my sister who was travelling with me we're on our way to listen to actually they got up and they met without me the women and so when I woke up my sister's a joy you know we're going listen today I said yeah I know she goes enjoy we're not singing in the city so whatever you need to do joy to get your little stuff together we need you to do that because we now say muna listen so I said I'm good okay okay I got hold it down so we are going to listen to in when they have this meeting the meeting is actually larger than its true and people are coming from all over we got people coming from villages people coming from the gut for the government everybody it's coming to greet these nine African American women so we're sitting on stage and of course things have to be translated so the guy who was translating he is actually a descent slaves are enslaved by the Dutch in a place called Ultravox in South Africa if Ultravox means the unexpected in Afrikaans they were left to die after apartheid ended but this man had gone back to learn the tribal language so he each one of us get up me translate so I got up I was referred to on the whole all the women are looking at me glaring like so I got up there I was good at that my name is joy de couleur II and I'm travelling what you know when we're trying to build a corridor relationship with our African sisters not sat on that I thought did but my sister my thumbs-up everything's good translator gets up starts translating then he starts going on and on and on and on and on and people start chanting it's just you know so much sister look at myself so I leaned over sat on but you could you say it was that's all them what you said I said understand he saw oh what happened well no he said what when I got the part wise you said you were African American some of the people from remote villages got confused because I thought all Americans were white so then I had explained to them that you were the descendants of the ones that had been stolen away and they were saying to you welcome home so I can't everybody was saying cuz I was crying that's shown my sister looks at me so what everybody's on your feet singing i'm tore up sup sup get a quarter in so this black woman who was in a corner room walks all the way towards me grabs me by the hand and said did you think we would forget you I am from the suta and lesotho is my home if I leave the zoo - the zoo - is tomorrow if I leave the studio for 15 years Lesotho is still my home we mourned Malcolm and Martin with you we are so so very proud of you you are African 300 years from we just wondered what you were coming back and then I realized how much of me had been taken from me so when I came home I was a little depressed deportment - hood alright a living on a knife which is no woman but I was alone Nathan I get a phone call and see if I was coming out it was worried people - trip calm what's wrong with her chain out so finally one day I had to come out because my daughter ran in she goes mom there's a little boy outside he say he gonna beat up Nadine that's her brother and he gonna pee on the car to wish as you know could happen so I had to go outside so I go outside to find a crew a young black boy Stan ain't nobody over ten my son trying to hold his own buddy scared I walk right over to little ringleader and I said it's my son done something then I need to know yeah I wanna know if he got some kind of a ball problem I speak Ebonics and that that kind of went what did you say I don't know if he got some kind of ball problem what he's saying it I'm thinking to myself Wayman you want to beat my son up cuz he was lucky now would you contrast that because in Africa when they talk to you when they would you know this would black folks do whatever don't know we do that but why do you why she yeah you have so many friends but the accent acknowledge me we walk down the street in the girls and try not to acknowledge somebody but you - good don't do no you don't do that because it's so important in African culture and Africa is even step further they in all the languages it translates to meaning I see and isn't that what we're doing we do this mm-hmm now when I had a language any more boy kept that right so I'm looking at this boy telling me they don't read my son into the ground because he was looking at I think I've been looking at you guys I thought maybe we'll play a little basketball 101 we got the hoop out here he could have been looking at you is he gonna make me play a video game we got a video game aside he could've been looking at you be able to park right down the street on 9th and Fremont he's been gone for almost kicking right so the little kids are looking at oh I got a little therapeutic I'll I give him my spiel about how we have to keep ourselves safe in the community and how we have to you have to protect one another and stand together and then I remembered Africa in Africa said I see you in African said what you look at in what what let me put that in perspective for you because that happens doesn't let me put this in perspective as it relates to this this comes out of the article I wrote and of course you can find this article it's very important the Journal of Social Work research in practice and even going my site and download it as well so an African American adolescent respect the scale in a row but I want to read this particular excerpt from and so you can put in perspective in contemporary society what I mean about that what you're looking at according to Anderson respect is an essential part of Street rules that are strictly enforced and regulated simply maintaining eye contact for too long may be viewed as a lack of respect and a front that can escalate into a confrontation in a similar vein remark that might otherwise be viewed as trivial may lead to an honor contest boy I wish had more time to talk to you about that we're no party backs down until someone is injured this was taken from a book by rage in force why you can also find that in the book and on the white on her website this is a quote on my way back from school I saw a young brother on a crowded in train eating sunflower seeds between his legs laid a mound of wet disgusting sunflower shells and he kept enlarging by spitting on the floor though visibly frustrated and disgusted by his behavior no one would dare challenge his position an older white man motioned to him to stop spitting the seeds on the floor in response he spat the seeds with much more animation than before while effortlessly trying to stare fear into the old man I made eye contact with him and he said what what believe me in the world of powerlessness this is enough for a shootout he leered at me then said I thought so and I responded with my generations favorite confrontation closer whatever now we were both snaring sneering staring flexing profiling and posturing at each other refusing to yield a power we thought we had creating two more powerless brothers in a confrontation over [ __ ] to intellectual and a beauty s looking for the upper hand while mentally handcuffed that's today that goes on so I wanted to understand what is a relationship with that contemporary behavior and why did that little boy look at my son and feel so threatened by him looking at him what must he have thought my son was seen because based on what we know about Erickson's model development what we know about Piaget what we understand about human development is that I attained to my self-concept based upon the appraisal of significant others in my life so I am not who I think I am and I'm not who you think I am I am who I think that you think that I am so what did he think my son believed about it what did he see peering back at him he saw peering back what he hated in himself he was ten years old and I said what has happened to this little boy that he cannot withstand a gaze that he so hates the reflection in the mirror then he would destroy my son to destroy the image that is a post-traumatic slave syndrome that's why I endeavored to look and I didn't want to look at violence I wanted to look at the internalized violence but that wasn't a social problem so then I looked at young men and hurt each other so first on the left hand side you have stress variables the first two variables are what we call baseline variables violence witnessing and violence victimization on the right hand side you have the dependent variable in other words I'm trying to predict this and that is use of violence I'm trying to see what the other variables have to do with the use of violence so now those two baseline variables we already know produce violence when people witness violence or experience being hurt they are more likely to violence fundamental basis baseline the variable at the end it's called daily urban houses now this was written by a black man this scale sometimes you how many people have heard of a stress inventory mm-hmm basically they say if you move you get some points you get divorced a dog dies anything you get points and we should have black on there huh because being black creates a stressor does it not now I want you to know being black and living in this skin we've normalized the stress haven't we it happens so often and they wonder why you act up when you get to rise because by the time you get to the office you will have been assaulted so many times before you doubt there you know the person that somehow you stand in front of them that you're invisible to by time because it work the person that's sitting right next you did doesn't say hello to you you know cuz that happens every time your invisible work we are all black people are just one thin white virus reasons I have time to talk about that but one of them is in African culture this is what we always do and you know what if I see you this morning I see you later on I'll do that again because it's something we do and you have people where greeting is for fun free so they don't look at you and keep going stay out right next to you or they'll go excuse me can you give me those papers what Bible oh say uh hello good morning good afternoon right oh well hi could you give me those papers right because we have a very different experience living here in America but one of the things I understand is not respecting a person and it's the idea of distress or associate with being black look at the electrodes on a black male in a police car drives up behind let's measure that stress uh two books I have to name these because I might have time to talk to good to talk about you must get as after you Mack one is called breaking rank norm Stamper 34 year police veteran chief of police for Seattle retired Chief of Police for San Diego retired wrote a book called breaking rank has a chapter entitled why white cops killed black men ho chapter he told everybody and when he broke when he took folks down he took them down I don't know what happened to this man but he started telling the truth there is a slide you have to show and that is the one where it says oh you don't live there yeah sorry I'm sorry I didn't see it he said I've heard some police officers refer to prostitutes lanes or to the slayings of blacks as misdemeanor murders employing an unofficial code for this nhi no human involved San Diego cops confessed to a myriad other acts of discriminating including additional the humanizing references to black on a radio call just at 11:13 [ __ ] eleven thirteen being a cold for an injured animal followed by a what is that a descriptor dog cats come it was a pernicious form of discriminating injected with a large dose of misogyny the led to the labeling of the lone female officer in my academy class as a split tail speculated that something to do with a woman's vagina this man goes on to give statistics on how many police officers in every Police Department across the United States are predators and saying that if you have a mother a sister a wife a daughter you should be afraid for them because they become police officers to prey on women he told now I gotta tell you the man lives in a cabin on a mountain somewhere in the San Juans so he knew it was going to happen this is a situation where again a lot of time to cover that but let me move on and move back to the violence scale very good book very important I think black folks should keep it on a - in a car because you may be they may say we paranoia but folks are following us according to the data there another book you need to read all God's children Fox Butterfield wrote the book Fox Butterfield talked about violence and here you find out who pushed whom first perfect representation postman slave syndrome if you want to see it in the life of a gentleman that actually was the reason why we started trying young youth as adults his um this particular situation here I breathe let me read this because I think this is an amazingly glass when I read according to Butterfield what emerged was not just a portrait of the baskets the gentleman Willy basket the one who's now serving consecutive life terms youth tried as a dope cuz of Willy basket but a new account of the origin and growth of violence in the United States violence is not as many people today presume a recent problem or peculiarly urban bein rather it grew out of a proud culture that forged in the antebellum rural South a tradition shaped by White's long before was adopted and recast by some blacks in reaction to their plight the records also show that the vast majority of people put on trial from violent crimes in antebellum South Carolina where White's the slaves were believed to be thought to be a gentle people Butterfield describes two forms of violence among the lower and upper classes knock-down drag-out wherein visuals often had their nose eyes or ears ripped from their bodies and dueling shooting and killing as a means for gentlemen to settle disputes now I want to put this in perspective in terms of my research that looked at respect are you following me what was modeled is honor and manhood how does a 16 year old black male in America get respect remember well modeling a duel is just a dressed up drive-by but what would I understand about that that how do you how are you a man as a black man in America if you don't have the material means to assert dominance or control over your resources you have learned helplessness research tells us that you or you have hyper masculinity well I've got I've got to a certain my manhood somewhere and somehow so I'll strike fear survivor adaptation adaptation how do you learn to survive and adapt in a hostile environment that's what black people have done all this time and sometimes we heal crooked sometimes we did but let me tell you this one thing I don't know where my time okay I'm gonna let me um let me just move it out I'll give you time to give me questions but I want to give you put the slide up in terms of adaptation what I did discover my research by the way is that all my hypothesis is correct more urban hassles more violence more victimization more vines for witnessing more violence racial socialization middle variable written by Stevens and Howard Stevenson out of Penn State black man he said this is a resiliency factor so pay attention to this he suggested racial socialization is an important way of measuring how black people cope and adapt well what is racial socialization you help black children black men women know that you're walking out on a racially charged battlefield but you give them armor I'm going to tell you you don't have to be worried you have to trust what my high school counselor told me which was that I wasn't college material don't trust that but you know what we got your back you got a God you got mama daddy pig Big Daddy we here for you and guess what you're not a descendant of slaves after all you're a descendant of captured freed men and women and you know what it's gonna be alright because joy comes in the morning and we found out that the way you socialize a black child you have less violence I look right here in Port 200 African American males a hundred incarcerate a hundred we're not some of them were in the rites of passage program people don't Kevin fuller yeah I use that as a control group and I use a hundred of them they're incarcerated and found out that those who were racially socialized were less likely to be violent but more important was what I discovered about respect and what I discovered about respect is that when you disrespect black males and what do they do in prison they try to break them you're gonna create a prison now you're going to create a criminal you're going to create a sociopath because if you disrespect him you have more violence and guess what I put all the variables multiple regression stepwise remember regression analysis so I wanted to look at all the variables and how they behaved and perform highest greatest predictors of violence what were the most significant predictors of violence among african-american male youth all 200 of them after victimization or witnessing Fela respect now more importantly what does respect me what does respect mean to a black male I asked people what does respect mean I asked white men white men told me it means earned regard when asked black men he says a sense of Worth and value much deeper isn't it guess what respect means then we mean it either goes when one comes from the lab brief SPECT look again that's what respect means look at me again don't look the first time look again that's what it means to respect and that's all these young men were saying please look at me again and I want you to put that in context I see you look again that's what my research talking that these young men wanted you to look at them again but we can't look past our socialization in America so we need to socialize them these are the destructive behaviors so look at the corrective behaviors I just put it up there and we'll talk about them because we did have NOC pathology we have resiliency built up these are the things we've used through the through the years and I've broken them down from my alpha always to current status the things and I want to note for you that during Katrina during Katrina after we auto little was done they imply employed the very same methods to wrap you in so that you would go to sleep to subjugate and oppress what do you have to do to subjugate or oppress any group of people you must justify the behavior by what relabeling them and after all they're just looters and redness then they wrap you in that and go black more died after that I've been you know I've been in ninth war my family's from Louisiana but they aren't even tell you the number to die after Katrina then I tell you about because they've already convinced you they're bad people even here for in Dallas everywhere we've relabeled them so everybody can wrap themselves in it so we do have positive behaviors um we do understand once we look at some of these behaviors around how we look at each other how our attitudes um we can't in fact turn them around but you can't change what you don't know the book is full of those I certainly didn't have enough time Ennis in this in his day to share it I don't do justice or what the book does because it does go in great depth chapter six which is a chapter on healing the reason I wrote the book note the title postmarks slave syndrome America's legacy of enduring injury and healing we can heal imagine we've come this far with no help imagine how much more we can do if we understand and we can start changing thank you very much thank you very much joy I really really appreciated that and I'm sure the rest of the audience did also um I'm really I'm just kind of bowled over that's really really impacted me I don't really know where to start so what I would like don't happy time we were supposed to end at 1:30 but I just was not going to interrupt her people have any questions sometimes or you can wait tell uh in comparison when you talk about Katrina first thing that I when I heard about the Trina the first thing I thought about was Vamsi of course it's one of the same questions so maybe orders like the displacement all the things were the same and also the the disparity with what black people who experience not just black people poor whites as well Mac that they should do it I don't know if they do it now for incoming professors here at Portland State they used to show a video of the making cos this was called vamp for college and the first time I saw it not only was there not a black person in it there were no women in the whole video and I thought that was okay so I complain a lot and brought pictures and gave it to him so anyone had seen I don't know if they've added black folks in here but when I first got you know came into the program there were no black people barely but there were poor blacks and whites in Vanport that place called phantom port and the flood killed far more than what the newspaper town said based on the accounts of the people themselves right so you still had that and then you had against further displacement and again displaced again so these are things that are again right up in front of us it happens and we are silent which is a reason why continues that on November 21st Joanne Bowman from Oregon action is going to be here to be our next speaker for the black bag and female board Lee I think she's left high even is going to host that event I won't be here and so I hope all of you can be in attendance for that event awesome thing I know you Randy I got a vote for you I tell you I give you a book I'm getting books oh babe do you have any here I brought one little box of books so if anybody wants a book I have I work with with your signature okay well why don't I do that right now okay I'm gonna do that because I know they're gonna close us down you can always come up and out to you I have a question something dog or a book and you gave me you know in my heart but I saw the sister yeah I'm awake important board and when I come back this there's two things that strike me as black one

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Length: 44min 40sec (2680 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 02 2014

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